Bill Shuster | My Amplog

“Today’s EPA announcement paves the way for Washington Democrats’ ‘cap-and-trade’ national energy tax, a bureaucratic nightmare that would make households, small businesses and family farms pay higher prices for electricity, gasoline, food and virtually every product made in America. One independent analysis determined that this national energy tax would cost our economy millions of jobs each year for the foreseeable future. What’s more, the timing of this announcement is yet another indication President Obama is preparing to unilaterally commit the United States to mandatory emissions cuts at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

“Taken together, these troubling developments provide further evidence that the Obama Administration’s agenda is becoming increasingly driven by liberal special interest groups at the expense of families and small businesses asking ‘where are the jobs?Read more at republicanleader.house.gov